Content overview

Sports broadcasting is consistently pioneering when it comes to incorporating technological innovations and this event celebrates the ever-expanding role this technology plays in all aspects of sports production.

The Sports Tech Innovations event covers:

Consumer trends in sports viewing, including 4K, HDR, high-frame rates and the devices and platforms used to access content.

What 5G will mean for televising sports/remote production

Case studies demonstrating pioneering uses of tech in sports production

The increasing role of AI in sports – what it enables and what will be possible in the future

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Arena’s clients needed the most powerful and future-proof solution for UHD and beyond. IP required a substantial financial investment and significant development. Two years, four OB trucks and hundreds of OBs later, IP has established itself as a powerful, flexible and resilient solution that should be around for decades to come.
Arena’s class leading live media over IP production units provide tangible benefits to live sports and event allowing creativity, flexibility and scalability that cannot be realised with traditional infrastructures. This is especially true as productions evolve to wide colour gamut, high dynamic range UHD acquisition and associated OTT content.

Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avid’s industry-leading solutions include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®, Avid NEXIS®, MediaCentral®, iNEWS®, AirSpeed®, Sibelius®, Avid VENUE™, FastServe®, Maestro™, and PlayMaker™.

Grass Valley is the No.1 player in content and media technology with market leading solutions, the industry’s largest R&D engine and a growing financial commitment to the future of this industry. Our unmatched global reach, means we are perfectly placed to help our customers overcome the enormous challenges they face in the ever-changing media landscape.

Whether HD or 4K UHD, HDR, SDI or IP, transitional hybrid workflow or greenfield, Grass Valley delivers solutions that make our customers more successful with the freedom and flexibility to create, control and connect Content Your Way. Grass Valley is part of St. Louis-based Belden Inc.

Since joining forces with root6 last year, Jigsaw24’s team have gone from strength to strength. Our extensive portfolio of solutions and services supports each stage of the creative workflow, as well as the infrastructure that makes it all possible. We’re proud to be the first choice for broadcasters, post-production houses, audio facilities, creative agencies, universities, and many more.

Established in 2000, MOOV provide live graphics and creative innovation to broadcasters and production companies worldwide. We are BT Sport’s in-house graphics partner and have partnered with them on various projects including the first ever UK UHD sport production, HDR trials and live VR360 content, including the Champions League final.

We develop all of our graphics control software in-house and we work with a wide range of technologies and partners, including onscreen graphics, Augmented Reality, large-scale videowall productions and VR360.

SIS LIVE is a leading provider of global critical connectivity services. We are the technology and team delivering content to millions of viewers with over 250 hours of live transmissions worldwide every day. Our comprehensive satellite and Anylive® fibre infrastructure connects over 125 locations including sports & entertainment venues, broadcasters, major switching centres and channel aggregators.

We are involved with the 6 Nations, Premiership Football, Golf, Boxing, and everything inbetween.

We work with the BBC, Channel 4, Five, ITV, Sky Sports and big brands offering them full network support and 24/7 proactive service monitoring and management, via our experienced team and network operation centres

Established in 1991, and a member of the IPSG Group, Presteigne Broadcast Hire is a leading dry-hire and complete, multi-location, professional production solution provider specialising in video (including 3D, Ultra HD and 4K), audio, IP and RF wireless technology. With two UK locations – one near Gatwick Airport serving the London/Southern area and one in Warrington serving Salford and the North of England – Presteigne’s rental department is one of the most comprehensive in the industry, with access to over 10,000 items of equipment including PPU units. Dedicated engineering expertise offers worldwide, superior 24/7/365 support. For more information, visit presteigne.tv

Timeline Television is a market-leading provider of broadcast technology and services. Our portfolio includes Outside Broadcasts, RF and Satellite, Studios and Post-Production facilities, Managed Services and Systems Integration. We are trusted by some of the biggest brands in the UK and international television market, including BT Sport, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, ABC News, Formula E and Racing UK.

We have a wealth of experience in delivering high-profile outside broadcasts including the FIFA World Cup, the recent Royal Wedding, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, America’s Cup sailing, Premier League and Champions League football, to name a few! Timeline is continuously delivering and managing large and innovative broadcast projects, recently pioneering with IP core systems on our flagship 4K HDR OB truck and delivering a fully cloud based MAM service for ITV Sport.

Timeline also designs and builds broadcast centres for the likes of BT Sport in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Racing UK at Ealing Studios. In 2013, Timeline completed the design and build of BT Sport’s home and was appointed as managed service provider for the facility.

Xtreamr is a video solution that gives broadcasters and content producers the tools to create new interactive video content, across both broadcast and digital. With Xtreamr, viewers and VIPs can now join your shows via video, from wherever they are and on any device, by simply clicking a link. Whether they’re at home, in the stadium or on the red carpet, Xtreamr powers next level engagement with your audience.

A Telefónica initiative, we are experts in transforming how you conceive of, produce, and deliver video. With no other service on the market can you interact with your global audience so easily, via video and with confidence, with effortless integration into your production workflow.